Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...always a mistake. The youth is taken out of the normal current of his life to do something else, and does not usually regain his pace. Statistics covering a number of years, show that the students who enter college young are on the average better scholars and incur less serious discipline than those who are older. No doubt this is in part due to the fact that they are the brighter and more industrious boys, for that is a reason why they have been prepared sooner than their fellows; but the very age is in itself a factor. There...
...keep their son out of college a year after he is prepared are often moved by a belief that he would otherwise be at a social and athletic disadvantage, and this is so far true that if such things were the main object of college the motive would be serious. A student younger than his classmates is usually somewhat less prominent in these matters; but by no means always. Some years ago a father sought advice about sending his son, to Harvard College at 17. He was advised to do so, but warned of the social disadvantage. Wisely...
Determined and serious is the attitude of Indian college students, Mukerji indicated, for they are continually thinking and discussing the social and political welfare and future developments of their country. The students do, of course, have their sports, such as football, but underneath all runs a serious attitude, and this attitude is in part enhanced by each student's undivided work, for after the age of 17. every boy has chosen his profession, and all his studies are viewed from the angle of his future profession or the ultimate welfare of India. Medicine, law, engineering, and business are the chief...
Peggy Wood, gracious musical comedy star turned serious actress, is a decorative but not always decisive Portia. The show was launched by Winthrop Ames, producer of many a notable endeavor.* It was as usual in true taste, but not always blood spotted with despair or dreamily alive with the enchantment of the poet's songs of love...
...vapid young John Barthwick Jr. who, in a state of supreme inebriation, had been assisted into his father's home by Mr. Jones, thereby allowing the latter the opportunity for his theft. The last act, a trial scene, allows rich young Barthwick to go unpunished for this and more serious misdemeanors while Mr. Jones is sentenced to a month of hard labor...